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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:52:03 +0100 (CET)
From:      N <niels@bakker.net>
To:        Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Aliased IPs
Message-ID:  <981216164530.29668A-100000@liquid.tpb.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216072800.28668A-100000@Radford.i-Plus.net>

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> As our web hosting business grows, I'm finding myself aliasing more and
> more IP addresses to accomodate.  FreeBSD and apache are holding up like
> champs, but my local routing tables are getting a little big.

Why do you need one IP address per website?  You can use Apache's ability
to distinguish between different virtual hosts based on the server name
passed by almost all browsers currently in use.


> I'm about to dedicate a full /24 to hosting, and would like to get it
> configured in such a way that I only see a summary route to cover the
> whole subnet, and not each individual /32.
> 
> If it helps, I'm running gated (needed for OSPF until I can get our NAS
> onto a seperate ethernet segment).

If you need to configure gated to only announce a summary, ask on
gated-people@merit.edu.


	-- Niels.


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